So basically i've mananged to code my first valid template which is perfectly viewable in the latest versions of IE, FF, Opera and Safari. Just wondered what other browsers i should download to view this template in to make sure it's working correctly? Also what browsers do you code for? Thanks, Jamie
Brilliant, thanks for everyones input, i've tested google chrome just then and it seems to work fine there too. Where would i download earlier versions of IE or is it just a simple search in google? Thanks, Jamie
Jamie, You can use this website http://ipinfo.info/netrenderer/ to view how your site looks in older version of Internet Explorer. Personally, I only test sites for IE, FF, and Safari.
First in my mind is IE. bcz lots of general people who surfing on net are using IE. They don't know the diff b/t IE and FF or any other browser. Second strongly prefer FF bcz it is professional choice. Third netscape, opera, etc etc. thanks
You may as well just open up every browser, alt tab to it and hit refresh - test simultaneously, it is a time saver. Test in IE6, IE7, Opera and Safari. Chrome uses the same rendering engine as Safari (but not the same JavaScript engine, so if you use Javascript alot, test in that). If you have Linux I also ocassionaly test in Konqueror, but don't normally care.
I test all my designs in IE 6/7 and Firefox. I then move on to less common browsers like Safari and Linux flavors.
I code for FireFox then adjust for IE compatability... And always be sure to be as xHTML Valid as possible...
I test in IE6/7, FF, and Safari. I will now test in Chrome but It doesnt seem to be any different from Safari or FF. Also i'm slowly coming away from coding for IE6 as lets face it, it SUCKS and more people should be using IE7 now!
heh, IE4 does CSS? I use Tredosoft Multiple IE's for testing on the Windows machine at work. They render pretty good, however the Flash and Javascript are not testable (JS is like IE7 not the real 6, 5, etc). For JS and Flash testing, you'll need real natives (I would have at least IE6, IE5.5 and below are really just your taste unless you have a client who needs to view in IE5.5 cause they can't upgrade), so VirtualBox is pretty nice to have (for a real IE6... because IE6 and 7 share dll files, you just can't have two fully functioning IE's on the same machine otherwise). I test in Konqueror too. I don't like that browser, to hell with anyone who uses it, BUT! More than once, every browser has shown me what I expect while a single browser (sometimes only a particular build like Opera 9.27 vs Opera 9.5 or 6beta) shows some error-- which ends up really being in the code. So, one reaosn why I test in everyone. I'll also recommend you test in a text-only browser like Lynx. Like, does the page still make sense without images or CSS? Can users still do everything and do it fairly effortlessly? And, doesn't hurt to test in a screenreader. JAWS7 for thumbdrive is free at FreedomScientific.com while FF has a plug-in "screen reader" called FireVox. Macs have something too, Voice Over? Not sure if it still has it. If you don't have a Linux box, maybe find one and test FF3 because for some reason, the widths of everything in FF3 on Fedora or Ubuntu (so I assume, everyone) are friggin goofy and wider than on Windows (don't have a Mac, can't test FF3 there). Normally OSes don't influence the browser like that, though they do influence things like fonts, font-sizes, and the browser defaults on forms.
Yeah, the font sizes things annoy me. When I'm on Linux, I feel like everythings been changed to large fonts, and a few of my newer sites are broken in Opera for Linux.
Interesting thread . . . Since I pay to advertise my web site, it's important that I secure as much compatibility as possible. I therefore code for everything - all browsers and all operating systems, going all the way back to Internet Explorer (IE) 5.01. Of all the browsers, IE annoys me the most. There's always some stupid hack to figure out! Another thing that annoys me is that it's impossible to get your site looking the same in all browsers and operating systems.